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Thaw Up For Auction
This is the first painting I’ve produced with the sig line BigFurHat.
It might be the last. I may die in my sleep tonight. Then someone will really have lucked out.
Let the bidding begin. My intent is to possibly have a bidding war and I make lots of money.
The painting is 2′ x 3′, acrylic on canvas. It comes unframed. I reserve the right to pull the auction down if my reserve isn’t met. I ain’t tellin’ ya what the reserve is.
UPDATE: The reserve has been met.
The painting is titled: Thaw
The auction closes on Tuesday, 9PM ET.
Racist
November 17th, 2012
I bid 1000 IOTW Bucks!
SOLD! – bfh
(ass)
Unruly Refugee
November 17th, 2012
I didn’t know you could paint. That is good!
But again, I’d have to track down one of my kids and force them to make a Paypal payment because they won’t let me do online payments in the witness protection program.
Racist
November 17th, 2012
…and a slightly used snow shovel… Very slightly used, I live in NC remember!
Seriously though, beautiful painting dude. I wish I could afford to bid on it, but I doubt my kids could eat it so it’s off my priorities list. For now anyway… Hope you make a shitpot load of money though! Then Obama can tax your rich ass and eliminate the deficit… oh wait
Racist
November 17th, 2012
Hey I ain’t bidding on no ass!!! I won’t make that mistake again… Stupid FBI!!! I don’t know why it’s ok for them and the Secret Service but not the rest of us!
Bad Brad
November 17th, 2012
Lot of numbers right below the paint. LOL. I wish I where artistic. FUR Wada up with all the calluses on that right hand?
Racist
November 17th, 2012
You realize it’s 1 a.m. right? You think there’s any respectable adults still here? Hell, I’m probably the only one on the site that’s sober! Stupid DEA!!! I don’t know why… oh nevermind…
ToreyDawn
November 17th, 2012
Beautiful
conservative cowgirl
November 17th, 2012
So…at what price do we start the bidding?
BigFurHat
November 17th, 2012
Doesn’t matter. I have a reserve in my head. I’ll let everyone know Tuesday night if we have a sale.
Tuesday
November 17th, 2012
The trees look like they just heard a footstep in the snow, but don’t know which direction it came from. Lovely.
FreedomCat
November 17th, 2012
Great painting. Unfortunately I have no moola. Good luck.
conservative cowgirl
November 17th, 2012
@Fur, I’m afraid of insulting you!
BigFurHat
November 17th, 2012
You can silent bid by e-mailing bigfurhat.mail@gmail.com
I will publish the bid but not say who it came from.
grayscape
November 17th, 2012
Racist beat me – I only have 20 IOTW bucks. But at least I’m not sober.
Snowball the Sourpuss
November 17th, 2012
Great description, Tuesday!! Like they’re looking around and at each other “who goes there?”
I’ll start the bidding at 30 American dollars. Then again, I believe my Altoids are stronger than the dollar.
Name Redacted™
November 17th, 2012
OK, I’ll start the bidding at $100. I know it’s worth way more than that, but I’ll just get the ball rolling. Stinkin’ Obamaconomy.
AbigailAdams
November 17th, 2012
Mr. Hat, Is it commie art? Isn’t that “the little red school house”? I get it, it’s a romantic recollection of communism “as it is supposed to work” and now the social climate is “thaw” – ing in reception to it. Right?
(Nice work, BTW.)
Jerry Manderin
November 17th, 2012
A peek behind the curtain…thank you for sharing BFH!
Snowball the Sourpuss
November 17th, 2012
110.00!
Mr. Happy
November 17th, 2012
That picture looks nice, but I think it needs more naked women in it, maybe some big block Chevys too, doing burn-outs, in the woods.
I’m no art scholar, I just know what I like.
racist
November 17th, 2012
Now see? Mr Happy is to to something… I might consider letting the kids fend for themselves a bit if there were nekkid womerns, 400s, and 454s involved… although, the bid is already over $100. I can buy a whole lotta potted meat and loaf bread for that. And if I can convince them that canned cat food is basically the same thing… I could feed em a long time to $100 !!!
Boobie the Rocket Dog
November 17th, 2012
Okay! This is like The Price Is Right.
Lemme go put on a dumb costume first.
. . . . .
$111.oo
HERBERT HILL
November 17th, 2012
I paint as well, and I know how hard it is to get such good color tone across the whole thing. $120.
Edith McCrotch
November 17th, 2012
$3.00 and a bucket of grits.
Cate
November 17th, 2012
175.00
Mountain Dog
November 17th, 2012
Impressive art work Big Fur !
How about a trade for an HP 600 Designjet plotter? 24 or 36 inch rolls, black ink, busted translucent lid – but rigged to work when you stick a pen in the switch hole that the lid is supposed to trigger. Value, about $225 minus $50 for new ink cartridges. Great for blue prints or drafting projects.
You would have to pick it up since you don’t have an address for me to ship it to (or send a check to).
Maudie N Mandeville
November 17th, 2012
I don’t appreciate good art but out of respect for your work, $174. That may go up as other’s continue the bidding. Rest assured, I’ll be right in there.
Herbert Hill
November 17th, 2012
$185. It’s three feet long. Please outbid me.
Dr Tar
November 17th, 2012
@BFH Does the work come framed with a letter of authenticity by the artist or some other means of proving providence? I probably watch too much Antic Road Show, but they seem to put some weight on those extras when valuing artwork.
I’d put a bid in for it now but you are already out of my price range until Uncle Sam gives me my hard earned money back in the Spring.
Good luck with the auction.
If I might make a suggestion for a future work – maybe Obama’s dead body getting gang raped by a spontaneous crowd of protesters.
Or better yet Obama and Mooschelle getting the Mussolini send off in front of the WH fence. Something like this
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/mussolini.jpg
joe6pak
November 17th, 2012
If it is an original bigfurhat I’m in at $250.00.
Billy Fuster
November 17th, 2012
ONE BILLION DOLLARS!
Billy Fuster
November 17th, 2012
Uh–that was a joke.
Corky
November 17th, 2012
$300–I love it and I love the name!
Team America still mourning
November 17th, 2012
Great work, Fur. I love it. I’ll check eBay first but don’t know if I can afford to feed you for a week.
MOTUS
November 17th, 2012
Love the painting!
Question: Do we have to bid money?
BigFurHat
November 17th, 2012
Motus – I don’t need no stinkin’ boob belts.
Team America still mourning
November 17th, 2012
Yeah, but Fur, do you have nipples unlike the FBI shirtless guy?
Slippery
November 17th, 2012
I will bid a Mosin Nagant rifle (made in Russia!) and 400 rounds of ammunition for it.
Serious offer. The retail value of the above items are approx $225.00.
joe6pak
November 17th, 2012
$400
joe6pak
November 17th, 2012
Will you be posting the current high bid any place? If we are going to have a bidding war break out we need to know what to beat.
FreeMan & Sarah Intend to Defend
November 17th, 2012
The tree on the left puts the cunt back into Country.
Angry White Dude
November 17th, 2012
It’s a brilliant manipulation of negative space. Post-modernist, neo-cubist. Fascinating!
awd
Nutjob
November 17th, 2012
Cool pic, I paint myself, just make sure you put back enough money for Obamacare from the proceeds.
To close to christmas to bid.
Menderman
November 17th, 2012
Nice painting…I have no money, but how about half a Twinkie, a couple of pounds of shipwreck coal I found on the beach?
oh, and I’ll throw in my Vanna White Playboy Magizine!
If I’m getting close, let me know and I’ll look around the house to sweeten the pot!
Diogenes
November 17th, 2012
If you insert maybe a old rusty truck on cinder blocks back in the woods somewhere I might bid.
Mary Jane Anklestraps
November 17th, 2012
Prettyyyyyyy!
Wait! Wait!
I’m gonna go try to sell some of my diabetic syringes at the park. I’ll let you know how that goes…
anon
November 17th, 2012
This is beautiful and alive. I see something profound in the use of light, the source of warmth, the lean of the trees, the colors. It actually makes me recall Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnun-Bouveret’s Christ and the Disciples at Emmaus. sincerely
joe6pak
November 17th, 2012
$425, we need to bid this up.
Jerry Manderin
November 17th, 2012
I love how the cross on the church is prominent in the thawing, symbolizing a new birth, a new season.
Hippie Critic
November 17th, 2012
Great painting Fur!
RWF
November 17th, 2012
That looks beautiful, Hat.
In my travels as a military brat, I was “stationed” in Bangor. That sky, with those clouds definitely reminds me of that time.
Doc
November 17th, 2012
Bangor, is that in Thailand?
Edith McCrotch
November 17th, 2012
@ AP -
Barbara Gordon would give you a tsk for saying words like that.
msq
November 18th, 2012
thats pretty good.
just plain bob
November 18th, 2012
It ain’t art if it ain’t on black velvet
LadyGun12
November 18th, 2012
Or if it ain’t got dogs playing poker.
Chieftain
November 18th, 2012
Sorry I cannot offer more than high praise….but that is some great work. I hope you keep it up….
Harry Dangle
November 19th, 2012
That would look good over the fire place at Camp Handle It Lodge. “It’s where you wish you would’ve gone.”
billyk
November 20th, 2012
Needs another coat–I can still see the numbers
Just kidding–pretty good all things considered